1. Chapter 1, Part 2/2 Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order (ca. 3500–330 B.C.E.) The Iron Age and Hebraic Culture (Fiero 29-43)

3. Mesopotamia ©2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9. The Ark of the Covenant and sanctuary implements, Hammath near Tiberias, fourth century. Mosaic. Zev Radovan.

11. The Book of Job

12. A drawing of Babylon as it might have looked in the sixth century B.C.E.. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

13. Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon Ishtar Gate , from Babylon, Iraq. C. 575 B.C. Glazed brick , height of gate originally 40’ (12.2 m) with towers rising 100’ Restored/reconstructed version in Berlin, Germany

18. Ashurbanipal besieging an Egyptian city, 667 B.C.E. Alabaster relief. © The Trustees of the British Museum. What does this scene suggest about Assyrian culture? What do you see?

19. Reconstruction of the walled citadel at Khorsabad, Assyria (Iraq), ca. 720 B.C.E.

22. Royal Guards, relief on the stairway to the Audience Hall of Darius, Persepolis, c. 500 B.C.E.

24. Persian Luxury Persian Jewelry: Gold bracelet, ca. 500 BCE Rhyta, drinking vessel, for wine Achaemenid drinking vessel, Persian, 5th century B.C.E. Gold, 6 1/2" x 9". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1954 (54.3.3). Photograph © 1982 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.